Mokshamala

Author(s): Manu Doshi
Publisher: Manu Doshi

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He takes care that vigilance is observed in the household activities like cleaning, cooking, storing, bed spreading, etc.
While behaving carefully he teaches the wife and sons to be courteous and religious.
He encourages the sense of unity in the entire family.
He receives and treats the guests with due respect.
He does not send away a beggar without giving food.
He keeps contact with saintly people and adopts their teaching.
He always behaves within limits and remains contented.
He maintains scriptural texts in the home to the extent possible.
He maintains the life with a low level of activities.
The enlightened people state that such a family-life leads to a higher state of existence.
Lesson 13: Worshipping the omniscient Lords, Part 1
Truth-seeker: Revered Satya, some people are devoted to Shankar, some to Vishnu, some to Brahmä, some to goddess Bhaväni, some to prophet Mohamed and some to Jesus Christ. What do they hope to get by such devotion?
Satya: By their devotion they could be expecting to attain liberation.
Truth-seeker: Do you think, they might be getting such a high state thereby?
Satya: I do not think so. Those, whom they believe to be Gods, have not been liberated; how can they confer liberation to their devotees? Shankar and other gods have not overcome the bondage of Karma and are embedded with faults. As such, they are not worshipful.
Truth-seeker: Can you describe those faults.
Satya: So long as one stays with even with one of the 18 faults like ignorance, laughter, sexual instinct, affection, disaffection etc. as listed in lesson 8, he cannot be worshipped. One learned man has said that those, who term them as Gods, happen to deceive themselves. The women by their sides display their sensuous instinct; holding of weapons shows animosity; rosaries in hands indicate instable mind; and saying "come to my shelter and I shall redeem your sins betrays vanity and atheism. As such, how could they salvage others? Some of them claim to be incarnations of God; it shows that they are under the impact of Karma.
Truth-seeker: In that case who should be worshipped and whose devotion can lead to manifestation of soul's capabilities?
Satya: Soul's capabilities can manifest by devotion to the liberated Lords, who are the symbols of pure eternality, consciousness and bliss, and also to the omniscient, omni percipient Lords, who are faultless, Karmaless, fearless and totally detached.